US aviation giant Boeing has told BBC News it is donating $1m (£812,600) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump. Google has also confirmed that it has made a similar donation as the two firms join a growing list of major American companies contributing to the fund.

Google joined other tech giants this week and confirmed on Thursday that it was giving $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund.

Tech giant Google is the latest company to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump ’s inaugural fund, following in the footsteps of other major corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Uber and OpenAI. The company donated to Trump’s inaugural fund on Monday, according to CNBC.

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook are among the tech titans who donated a million dollars to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

If we can’t count on this country’s vaunted checks and balances to either check or balance the power of an absurdist president, where else can we look?

Some donors didn’t contribute to Biden’s fund, but the outgoing president received big donations from other companies.

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Google is donating $1 million to president-elect Donald Trump's inauguration fund, joining Meta and other tech giants

The major US businesses donating to the fund also includes energy firm Chevron and tech giants Meta, Amazon and Uber.

President-elect Donald Trump is making headlines days before his inauguration for threatening to use "economic force" to push Canada to merge with the United States under his next administration.

Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are each donating $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, joining the roster of technology companies shelling out to back the incoming US president’s festivities later this month.